Are to receive another £1. 6 billion in additional funding from the government as they continue to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement from the local government secretary came after Council Leaders warned they may have to consider extreme measures to cut costs. This report from our political correspondent, nick eardley. Closed. Like many parts of the country, Council Facilities have been shut down, starving local authorities of cash, just as they face extra pressure to pay for things like social care and to support vulnerable communities through the crisis. This afternoon, the government said it would make extra money available for councils in england. Today, im providing an additional £1. 6 billion of new funding to support councils. We are backing councils to make sure Vital Services such as adult social care, childrens services, support for the most vulnerable and waste collection, continue, despite the increased pressures. There will be extra cash to spend in scotland, wales and Northern Ireland, too, but money is being spent quickly. Council leaders have warned that some councils were facing extreme cuts to make ends meet. They welcome todays funding. Were very pleased with this announcement, both the extra 1. 6 billion, but also the commitment to continue looking at the funding requirements of local government to make sure that we can do all those things that we are doing to support our residents. This is another reminder of the massive Economic Impact the shutdown is having, both on individuals and communities. And the bill the government is facing is mounting, with huge amounts of money already promised to businesses and to try and keep people injobs. But with those extra pressures on local authorities, and fears some wont be able to pay their council tax compounding the funding problem, some fear the extra money announced today will not be enough. The streets being cleaned this afternoon may be quieter, but important local services continue. In one way or another, they have to be paid for. Nick eardley, bbc news. Now on bbc news, sri lanka, one year 0n. Jane corbin returns to the island and meets some of those whose lives were changed by the easter terror attacks. This film contains scenes which some viewers may find distressing. Sri lanka a Paradise Island of many faiths, popular with tourists all over the world. But the peace is about to be shattered by a series of terror attacks. This is the story of the minutes that followed and how they changed the lives of three people from thousands of miles away. When you walk on a day like today, its a holiday today. The people are here, looking at the beach, in a way, for hope. The only way we as a family and i think, as a world can recover, is if something good comes out of something so evil. Easter sunday 2019, the luxury Shangri La Hotel in the capital, colombo, was packed with visitors enjoying the holiday. I looked through the window, it was a beautiful morning, just like any other normal morning. I opened the door and could hear the nice music in the background. Its very zen like in shangri la. Kieran from london was staying in the hotel while on business. Haneke from australia had booked a last minute holiday here. Everything was done really well. The service, the quality, everything was done at a really high quality. I loved it, those first few days. I was walking through the corridor to the lift and i pressed the button and the lift opened and i got in. Two local men had also checked in. They were caught on security cameras on their way to breakfast. We walked into the restaurant passed all of the stations of food. These two men brushed past me, they were swinging around these big backpacks that i found quite odd at the time. One guy was looking quite intentely around the area. He got quite close to my face and i remember finding that very uncomfortable. The two men had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State group and were here to kill tourists. I heard the big thud, the bomb underneath. Everything goess silent, you dont hear any sound anymore. Literally for a moment, you freeze. All i remember was hearing a sound coming from my right and i remember feeling a pressure. The next thing i knew, iwas. 0n the ground. It mustve been about five seconds later, you can hear the screaming in the lift next to me. Kids were screaming and you could see the jerk stopping of the movement. The door opened and this is when you saw all of the carnage just in front of you. It was as if there was ash coming from the ceiling. I just saw the wires dropping out of the roof with the walls all shattered. You can hear the water sprinklers. You can see people with blood all over them running around. They were trying to escape. As i looked down and saw that, i noticed that i was from head to toe covered in blood. I saw the destruction in the room that had been caused and i saw the terror in other peoples eyes. I basically thought that we were definitely going to die. David lindsay was in london that day, but his father and brother and sister were staying in the Shangri La Hotel. Hes american and my mothers english. They are all pictures of them. How old is amelie here . She was probably 1a. This is amelie and dad on the beach in california which is where we went every year. Amelie was the glue that held the entire family together. She was as close to everyone. Dad was the most selfless person you could ever have asked for. David, amelie and daniels older brother had stayed at home to study for his exams. They were just on holiday really because they were very adventurous people, they wanted to get to know the world better, develop a global view, really on how things worked as much as possible. They were caught up in the attack on the shangri la while they were at breakfast. They had gone to get something from the buffet when it happened. And just because of the way they were standing, you know, my dad made it out with barely a scratch but they didnt. Amelie and daniel were amongst those rushed to sri lankas national hospital. Dr indika de lanerolle was one of the medical staff trying to save the wounded. A lot of casualties were there, a lot of dead bodies around me. And i still remember ambulances were coming, so people were shouting to each other. There was quite a lot of people who were affected, a lot of tourists and they were shell shocked. A lot of people from European Countries who have not seen Something Like this happen. Amelie and Daniel Lindsey couldnt be saved two of the 35 people who lost their lives in the shangri la that morning. It wasnt just three Luxury Hotels that were bombed on easter sunday. The islands Christian Community was also a target on a day when churches were packed. It is a special day for christians, especially. It is a celebration day. At the zion church on the islands east coast, a young man arrived wearing a large rucksack. Brother stanley who was helping at service spoke to him. He was very young and he had a bag. He was very calm and then later on, i was thinking in different ways how he was looking. I spoke to him and he refused to come in. Then, at that time, i didnt feel any danger. I went inside. The zion church recorded the sound of their service starting. Explosion screams a huge sound, all the ceilings, from the stage one side fall down. This church was one of three bombed that day by other young men in the terorr Group Operating on the Island Inspired by the so called Islamic State. It was terrifying, terrifying scene. Ive never, never seen in my life that way because i have seen many wars but i have never seen. I have never seen this kind of terror. Across the island, another Easter Service was just finishing at Saint Sebastians Church in negombo. Chandrani and herfamily, devout christians, were in the congregation that day as another suicide bomber detonated his device. 115 people are believed to have been killed at saint sebastians 27 of them children. It was the worst loss of life in the nine bombings that day. As sri lankans tried to rebuild their lives, the lindsay family was also trying to come to terms with their devastating loss. David was determined to do something positive for sri lanka, so the family established a charity in memory of amelie and daniel to provide support for the hospitals that were so overwhelmed that day. Doctors in sri lanka are very good because theyve dealt with the civil war for 30 years. They really did everything they could. There werent enough trolley beds for people, people were being carried into the hospital and treated up against the wall. As good as the doctors were, they couldnt. There was no way they could save everyone. Now, nearly a year on, david has come to colombo to see a delivery of new hospital beds paid for by his Charity Fundraising in britain. Here they are, the trolley beds. And you are in sri lanka to see them . What do you feel . I feel really a deep feeling of pride and gratitude for actually managing to get something done and for everybody who has helped us and allowed this to be possible. These were made in a localfactory and we wanted to source as much of the equipment locally as possible because the country has been hit very hard. Every dollar of business we can give to local companies is helping more than just bringing them beds. The fact that youre in this hospital where you have actually seen the place your brother and sister were brought. This is very tough to deal with . Very tough. Of course, when i saw that place last time, it was very, very upsetting. It is somewhat comforting to feel that upset replaced with a bit of pride with bringing the trolley beds. Providing beds is just the start for the charity. Then we go to bigger pieces of equipment and, if we get the funding, we could even build our own hospital. But welljust have to see what we can get and how things work out operationally. But im very optimistic. The charity is also working with the authorities to improve practical trauma care. And there are plans to help the wider community. We want to try and aid the recovery of the country both socially and economically. And theres a number of ways were looking at doing that. Were looking at education, were looking at skills, training, and were are looking at direct Mental Health and counselling help. In its purest form, the charity exist to Carry Forward emily and daniels values because theyre no longer here to do so. For kieran, now back in sri lanka, the shangri la bomb was a flashback to the civil war he experienced growing up here as a child. For me, the civil war left a profound mark on my life. I remember as a child it was normal, you know, you look around, you see bombing at night, the middle of the night, youll hear a shell coming from a big camp. And youll think that was a very normal event. The war raged for 25 years as tamil insurgents sought to establish an independent state in sri lanka. The conflict killed tens of thousands of people and wounded and displaced many thousands more. Few families were left untouched, but kierans torn apart, caught in the crossfire between insurgents and the sri lankan army. My brother, he was six years older than me. I must have been 11 or 12 at the time. I can see him coming from the senior school, running towards me and i was running towards him. I see him being shot, falling down. So i ran to him and there was a moment of shock, there was a moment of i was very young. I didnt know what to do. But my father, he loved his son and he said, you know what, i do not care. And he walked into the camp to see the body. And they arrested him. And they kept him for six months for asking that and they tortured him. Kierans father paid smugglers to get him out of sri lanka to britain and safety. Kieran claimed asylum and lived with a tamil Refugee Charity in london. He excelled at school, went to university, and worked with prestigious firms in the city of london. Then i decided that there must be a reason that god somehow saw me through this death and destruction on one side and somehow brought me all the way through this journey to england. Kieran had set up an educational charity, aiming to help train young survivors of the civil war in technology. Surviving the easter bombing gave new impetus and urgency to his plans. Kieran, too, is determined to help sri lankans get back on their feet after his own lucky escape from the shangri la. This is a country that has given me everything in my life. And ifeel that this kind of enforces why we must we can only overcome evil by education and empowerment. His charity is now focusing on high Tech Training to provide employment and opportunity for the young. How are you . Im all right. I want to make sure they are learning the Machine Learning of the world, the ai, the blockchain, whatever we think the future is going to be. Two former students of kierans have come to colombo to help him set up his high tech academy. So i brought someone from india to teach augmented reality, because im very. Augmented reality . Thats quite thats pretty advanced. Thats right, because you know one of my things that my passion for these guys were that when i was studying in sri lanka, if i wanted to learn about hearts i need to go and read like five or six books before i can understand, but because the technology, the augmented reality, you know, you can literally see the heart just literally in front of you. So i wanted to create that curiosity into education. You know, one of the things, guys, you know, when i listen to you guys, its that we have this grit within our culture, as a country we have this resilience, amazing resilience. chanting another shangri la bomb survivor, haneke, like kieran, has her roots in this island. I was born in melbourne, australia, and my family is sri lankan. The first time i ever went was after the end of the civil war. Ive been going back on holidays ever since. Theres a weird sense of home when i go back. When you have an experience like this where you think youre about to die, suddenly, all the things that you thought were important to you become quite clearly not that important. I never could have imagined how horrific these things could be and how much devastation it can cause. And were all human, and seeing other peoples pain firsthand. And so i started dine for lanka, which is a not for profit fundraiser. And its focused on food because i think food brings people together regardless of their race or religion or political view or gender. We supported a local Sri Lankan Charity called kind hearted lankans. Theyre doing all the hard work on the ground, working with us and distributing to help people in terms of their medical needs, people who were impacted by the attacks, in terms of their financial needs, livelihood, assistance that they require. Whether we help by providing prosthetics or beds for people so if they were paralysed they can get out of hospital and move back to their homes. An electric bed where they are not at risk of further spinal injuries. One thing im very aware of is that we cant undo what happened. And theres this entrenched pain and grief that a lot of people are dealing with. We cant undo that. Butjust bringing a little bit of positivity or hope can keep someone going for a little bit longer. Like many sri lankans, chandrani and her daughter are struggling to cope after the loss of the family breadwinner, diluk. They depend on local people whove rallied around to help. Crying those whose lives were destroyed by the bombings still struggle to comprehend these acts of hate. The attacks were an attempt to stir up religious conflict in this multifaith nation. But appeals for calm by christian leaders helped stop further widespread bloodshed. That is much important, to live together, because they still love, you know, all the communities. As a christian, we love everyone, even we love the people, you know, who hated us. The shangri la bombing brought three people from thousands of miles away together, with one aim to let sri lankans know they wont be forgotten. This isnt the sri lanka that i knew and its certainly not the sri lanka that i know now. This could have happened anywhere in the world and its its really important when things like this happen to move forward and learn lessons. A lot of the young people are hoping we can put all of this behind and move forward. And if you walk on a day like today, its a holiday today and people are here on the beach. In a way, for hope. When something terrible happens, youre left with a huge hole in your life. Our ultimate hope is that the only way we as a family, and i think as a world, can come to recover is that something good can come out of something so evil. And weve made a start. Hello. If you saw a bit of rain on saturday, sunday is looking like a brighter day, and plenty of dry and at times sunny weather to come in the week ahead. Sunday is looking dry for most, still a bit of cloud across southern and western parts of the uk, but even through this, there will be some sunny spells coming through. This produced a bit of rain, this weather front on saturday, its dying away. High pressure is Building Back in across the bulk of the uk, and thats going to give several days of settled weather. This is how it looks temperature wise to start sunday. There will be a few spots in scotland down to 11, maybe 5 in the highlands. There may just be a touch of frost across the coldest parts of Northern England as well. But there is plenty of sunshine to come during sunday, increasingly so across the eastern side of england. That cloud toward southern and western england, wales and Northern Ireland breaking a bit. But well keep a fair amount of cloud in Northern Ireland, even into the afternoon. Now, there is a freshening easterly breeze, that pegs the temperatures back a bit along north sea coasts, whereas further inland and to the west, a few spots could be as high as 18 degrees celsius. As we go on through sunday night and into monday morning, again, we could see a touch of frost, parts of scotland and Northern England, and the chance of seeing some heavy showers pushing in towards the Channel Islands and the far south west of england. Theres a lot of uncertainty about that, but the potential is there for a weather disturbance coming in as we go into monday. Whereas for most of the uk, it is High Pressure, so it is dry. But there is a brisk easterly breeze. With these showers, again, a lot of uncertainty about where theyll exactly be, but the chance of seeing some for the Channel Islands, cornwall, isles of scilly, whereas elsewhere, there should be plenty of sunshine around. The arrows indicating that brisk easterly breeze, these are average winds, gusts will be higher, around 30 a0mph in places, especially across parts of england and wales. It does pegs those temperatures back along these north sea coasts, maybe just around ten degrees in some spots, whereas further west, getting to around 19. And temperatures head up a little bit more as we go through the week as the easterly breeze starts to ease. Just a selection of locations here, but you get the idea. With that area of High Pressure around, there is a lot of dry weather in the week ahead. Theres lots of blue sky and sunshine on the way as well for a bright weather view, a bright look through your window at the weather outside. This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Im simon pusey. The uk government admits ppe is in short supply in england and that more needs to be done to secure stock. 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